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Israel's attack on a long established and clearly marked UN base overlooking the border at Khiam in southern Lebanon Tuesday is stunning.

Four UN observers were killed in their bunker, including one from China.

The coordinated artillery and aerial raid occurred despite personal assurances given to the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that UN positions would be spared Israeli fire.

We express our strongest condemnation at this inhuman move and convey our deepest condolences to the victims and their families.

Israel must apologize for the bombing and to the victims' families.

Our hearts also go out to the Chinese soldiers in the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, who are now trapped in a very dangerous situation. Israel must make sure that its shells do not hit these peacekeepers.

Shocked and deeply distressed by the strike, Annan condemned it as "apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces."

No political pretext can justify such outrages.

Thorough investigations should be conducted and tangible measures taken by the concerned sides, particularly Israel, to ensure the security of UN peacekeepers.

It is high time that the relevant sides returned to talks to pursue a political solution.

With Israel resorting to military attacks after two of its soldiers were taken hostage by Hezbollah, the crisis in the Middle East is spiraling out of control.

Israel's bombing has gone beyond the legitimate right of self-defense.

The casualties are mounting as the fighting intensifies.

What the people of Lebanon and Israel urgently need now is to find a way to stop the fighting.

Israel's allies, the US in particular, should and could save the peace process by urging a ceasefire. But Israel is being allowed at least another week to continue its attack against Hezbollah.

Whatever the calculations, any indifference to the mounting death toll is dangerous.

By resisting calls for an urgent ceasefire, Washington is buying Israel more time to pound Lebanon.

Yet there is little sign that Hezbollah has been so far deeply wounded. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, threatened Monday to launch missiles deep into Israeli territory.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, the countries that Washington is relying on to rein in Hezbollah, made clear that they could not accept a US plan that would make a ceasefire only part of a broader peace deal.

Mediation can work only when it takes into account the demands and principles of both Israelis and Arabs.

The Middle East conflict has already done enough damage to both sides.

From the 1967 war onward, Israel's key strategic goal has been to avoid a political process at all costs. The country understood that the inescapable result of such a process would be Israel's return to its 1967 borders, with only minor adjustments.

Avoiding a political process is also the reason behind Israel's decision to withdraw Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip in return for an intensification of Israel's presence in the West Bank.

More insane days ahead, but in the meantime....here are a few quotes from those directly involved or covering the tragedy in Palestine and Lebanon:

Case it point, CBS anchor Bob Schieffer. “It is worth noting that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip did not kidnap that Israeli soldier and provoke all this because the Israelis were invading Gaza,” writes Schieffer. “No, all this happened in the wake of the Israeli withdrawal, which was what the Palestinians wanted, but this is the Middle East. Why fundamentalists in Gaza and Lebanon chose to provoke this war makes no sense.”

“Because Gaza is not an area which holds significant Jewish historical places, nor does it have valuable resources, it is not much of a loss to Israel, as compared to the West Bank,” writes Mitchell Plitnick for Jewish Voice for Peace. The Israelis hope “that by withdrawing from Gaza international attention and pressure to withdraw from the West Bank will diminish…. it signifies the continuation of Israeli domination of the Palestinians albeit under a different form.”

Weisglass said “disengagement supplies the amount of formaldehyde that is necessary so there will not be a political process with the Palestinians.” Formaldehyde, of course, is used in embalming fluid. In other words, the “peace process” is dead.

“The EU condemns the loss of lives caused by disproportionate use of force by the Israeli Defense Forces and the humanitarian crisis it has aggravated,” Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen told the BBC earlier this month. “The EU is Israel’s largest trading partner and rarely criticizes the country in such terms military or security matters,” explains the BBC. In other words, the Israelis have stepped up their brutal tactics to such a degree even trading partners are complaining. You know things are bad when humanitarian concerns trump economic concerns.

As Israeli author Tanya Reinhart argues, the Zionist state has long planned for “the second half of 1948,” that is to say finishing the job of ethnically cleansing Palestinians left unfinished when Israel was created, thanks to the United Nations, apparently unconcerned with the theft of Arab land or slow genocide for that matter.

Bob Schieffer and the corporate media will not only make sure we are not discomforted by such images, but will also tell Israeli lies about the Palestinians, most notably the lie that Israel offered a “peace plan” and held out the prospect of a Palestinian state, only to be rebuffed by terrorists, determined to push the Jews into the sea.

Israel never intended to make peace with the Palestinians and, instead, as Tanya Reinhart notes, plans to continue its policy of slow ethnic cleansing.

The world may see you guys as ‘The Great Satan’ … but it becomes more and more obvious to me that within the belly of this ‘Satan’ lies the possibility of a new birth.

A birth of a Free Humanity. Which is what America was initially all about.

When I talk to people in England about government involvement in ‘state sponsored terrorism’ they go into denial.

9/11 most Brits can accept as a dastardly ‘CIA/Bush administration’ plan to manipulate public feelings in the USA.

But 7/7? The London Bombings? Our government … the BRITISH government? … OUR government involved? Most people in England go into instant denial.

This could NEVER happen in ENGLAND.

NOT OUR GOVERNMENT!!!

I am new here.

But I sense kindred spirits … people really trying to get to the bottom of the misery in the world … the inhumanity and pain … and WHO is causing it and benefiting from it.

What has been termed ‘holocaust denial’ has cropped up in a number of posts.

But what about ‘holocaust research’? Like research into the ‘real Jesus Christ’ or what really happened to the Knights Templar? Or who, really, was Mohammed? Or what was the Suez Canal crisis all about? Or what were the REAL dynamics of the 1st World War? Or the Korean War? Or Vietnam??? Etc., etc., etc. It’s known as ‘Historical Research!’

Hmm. But, strangely, we are forbidden (VERBOTEN! ß- sound familiar from countless 2nd World War movies? I think the guys who liked shouting it a lot were the Gestapo!) … we are VERBOTEN to look too closely at the FACTS of the ‘holocaust’.

Seems the Israelis are VERY comfortable with the ‘Hollywood Holocaust’ portrayal. No historical research encouraged by them!!! My goodness!!! Enter B’nai B’rith (ADL) at the speed of light!!!! Is this guys an anti-termite, or what???

As for people in prison for writing ‘holocaust denial’ (i.e. historical research into the Hollywood myth!), there are now several. David Irving – once described by the Jewish press who published his works as the greatest ever historian of Adolf Hitler is probably the best known. Now serving 7 years in an Austrian jail.

7 years for writing thoughts down? I mean, didn’t this guy at least axe someone?

NO … he didn’t. He did not physically harm any human being.

BUT … seven years for BAD THOUGHTS.

That’s the ZIONISTS for ya! CRUCIFY HIM!!!

And, guess what? Research into what ‘really’ happened in the holocaust has now virtually ceased.

People are still writing books researching the ‘real’ Christ – was he the lover of Mary Magdalene, the prostitute? Was he a homosexual? And, of course, we insist on ‘freedom of speech’ (hackneyed, meaningless phrase now!) to voice our opinions and ‘cartoons’ about the prophet Mohammed. BUT … don’t touch the Holocaust guys! You will go directly to jail!

It is interesting that in about 1990 (when some people actually started saying … hey, this Hollywood Holocaust stuff doesn’t seem to make sense! – er,15/16 Million Jews in 1938 …. 15/16 Million Jews in 1948? Hmmm. A rather rapid replacing of the 6 Million gassed!) the Israeli government changed the plaque in Auschwitz that had formerly remembered the '4 Million' Jews gassed there, to a new plaque commemorating 1.5 Million Jews? Wow! A drop in numbers of 2.5 Million!!!!! That’s 2,500,000 people!!!!. Pretty big ERROR!!! [You can see the photographs of both plaques here]

http://zundelsite.org/english/antiprop/plaques/ ]

Hmm. Think they were worried the whole thing – and their complicity in it – i.e; the guilt trips laid on the West; world ‘sympathy’; the big-business fund-raising; the ‘ we must never allow this to happen again at any cost!’ justifications for any acts of terror they might wish to commit? – think they might have been just a tad worried at being found out?

Well, they’ve taken care of that now, haven’t they?

WAKE UP!

And please understand that I am not saying that every Jewish person ( and I count a few as friends) is involved, or even agrees with what is now going on in Lebanon!

But always, and in everything, it is that nasty little cabal that mind-f*ck everyone else for their personal agendas (primarily through the MEDIA they control), that take us all – but NOT themselves, of course! – into a living, global Hell.

Hehe, you must be a kindred spirit because I'm a Southern American, so I already have something to be pissed off about, right. Okay, I'm being fececious. By nature I'm controversial tempered with compassion. I stand up for injustice when I see it. My character has never integrated successfully within the present structure of American society. No one thinks for themselves anymore, they just follow along with popular culture to the point of excess because everybody else is doing it. What happened to the American spirit. We definitely need a modern day Paul Revere.

I come from an old, traditional family. My great, great uncle was in the Confederate Army and at one time my grandfather owned an entire county in West Tennessee. My father served in WWII and Korea and was a staunch patriot. He hated the changes and unjustices that he realized were occurring within the government over 30 years ago. His passion is now my passion.

Anyway, people are pretty much the same in America regarding current issues. Most seem afraid to express an opinion and most are simply brainwashed by the Zionist national media. I was in another conflict a few days back with someone at MySpace. He was passing around pictures of Islamic Extremists - which in his mind every Muslim is an extremist. This is just more narrow minded opinion that injects poison into the masses because they've been hearing it for years on the news and in newspapers that all Islam is terrorrist by nature. Well, this guy accused mwah of being a fanatic because I opposed him. He probably believes that AIDS came from monkeys in Africa too!

I've been reading about Ernst Zundel too. Did you know he was basically kidnapped by the CIA at his home in Tennessee and taken to Canada without due process of law. The unchecked power in Washington being waged against our own people is terrifying, but I'm not changing - not even for them. I will die a matyr on the side of justice and humanity before I let them intimidate me or my family. Forewarned is forearmed, I say.

You said:“What happened to the American spirit. We definitely need a modern day Paul Revere.”

Whoa!

Paul Revere? You are hoping for another ‘son of liberty?’ Another ‘Boston Tea Party?’

In this day and age?

How about sit in front of the television 24/7 and watch the Big Brother House?!

Lol

Hey buddy. I’m with you!

So lets carry the message to them on every site we can.

That’s what we have to do. Wake everyone up!

Jesus … if we all woke up we would come out into the streets and grab the Blairs and Bushes of this world and lock them away! Because they are necrophiliac madmen!

Do they see the same pictures we do?

The tiny bodies?

Children already amputees at seven years of age? Faced with a life – if they even have a chance to live one! – of being cripples? No running, jumping, laughing, dating, joyous abandon … not ever … thanks to the likes of Blair, Bush, Olmert and Sharon.

Children disfigured with those so ‘macho’ white phosphorous munitions? Scarred for life? Blinded for life?

Do Bush, Blair, and their paymasters see the pictures?

Yes they do.

They see them.

And guess what?

THEY DO NOT CARE!

Whitewraith … I’m trying to get everyone to watch this video by Alex Jones. Called Terrorstorm.

This is the current Google Video link. Copy and paste into Address and hit enter.

A number of would be congressmen – hoping to be elected in November – are prepared to move to impeach Bush and accuse him of complicity in 9/11. This is serious, because, if impeached, Bush and his closest advisors could not only be toppled from their accustomed positions of power, but could also face lengthy periods of incarceration.

They are not going to allow that to happen without a fight!

Ray McGovern – involved in CIA, and advisor to administrations for over 27 years – has warned that he thinks Bush will act to declare martial law, and the suspension of elections, before November 2006.

McGovern thinks that ‘martial law’ will be declared on the back of yet another ‘terrorist outrage.’

We have to prepare people for this.

We have to prepare them not to react in the same old way. We have to ask them to consider:

Who benefits?

Who, realistically, could have done it? Who has the resources and control of circumstances?

Was there the usual 'uncannily co-incidental' ( On 9/11 there was an exact same 'exercise' attack, supposed to simulate HIJACKED COMMERCIAL PLANES crashing into the TWIN TOWERS at the SAME time as the ACTUAL attack took place! I have heard audios of air traffic and defence controllers questioning each other as to whether this was an 'exercise' or 'the real thing'! (Yet Condoleeza Rice stated that the US administration could 'never have imagined' this kind of attack to be a possibility!)

War is ugly on both sidesI can put the same type of images of Israeli casualties along with some great footage of 911 and put some sad music behind it, but why bother. Both sides are ruled by pussies that don't fight their own battles. they want us to kill each other to support what they believe in.WE ALL NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND MAKE PEACE WITH EACH OTHER FUCK THE LEADERS ON BOTH SIDES THEY SHOULD BE THE ONES IN THE VIDEOSFUCK THESE GOVERNMENTS THAT DON'TLET US LIVE, AND TEACH HATE.WE ARE ALL VICTIMS and will continue to be for a very long time

Actually, Bush is not the problem, but that doesn't mean I give this weasel any credit. The President of the United States does not wield as much power as most people believe. Like the Queen, he is a figurehead but across the pond we use the term "puppet". Modern day American Presidents are installed so that they can do their masters bidding, plain and simple, because our government is basically a corporation in reality.

It is not: By the People or For the People any longer, unfortunately. It slipped away while we were playing and not paying attention. This is why our Constitutional rights continue to erode as we speak.

Bush is not directly responsible for 9/11, not in my opinion. I believe he was instructed to sit idly by and wait for TPTB to carry out their plans. In this case - the Zionist "lackeys". I believe the Israelis that were captured on video cheering wildly as the towers fell were probably responsible or they knew WHO was. A few days ago, the government released the last one being detained. All of them back in Israel most likely.

Then they used the entire Muslim population as their scapegoat, possibly with even some willing participants looking to betray their own people. It is also worth noting that several of the supposed hijackers have been located - alive I might add - living their lives. The Muslim involvement was a smokescreen perpetrated against America so that Bush and his cronies could invade Iraq. They need the oil and revenue from the region.

I will say one thing - Zionists are elaborate in their creative thinking. But now, we have to start thinking as they do, if we haven't already, to see the deception behind the facade.

This is a grand, but deceptive pyramid of power that begins with the Rothschild family. Everything begins with them and trickles down to the other 9 ruling families, then circulates into finance and business, landing center front into the world's political arenas. Make no mistake, Rothschild is the esoteric, always elusive, King of the World and a Zionist to boot.

just a note to anonymous who spoke about the israelis in the 9/11 thing... exactly how many israelis died in that attack? and that was a cruel disgusting attack on innocent people, but it was a completely different thing. because now during the "war" (more like state terrorism) in lebanon u should see the huge differences.nr 1.: more than 81% of the israeli population thinks the israeli offensive should be stronger!!! (it makes me sick)nr. 2: in lebanon 90% of the dead were civilians, in israel the majority were soldiers nr 3.: israel has repeatedly with the help of the sons of bitches bush and blair rejected an immediate cease fire, hesballah (although i do not support them at ALL) has accepted a cease firenr. 4: if for every two soldiers a country would start a war, imagine how many wars should have been started on israel for the THOUSANDS of prisoners (many of them respectable and peace-loving palestinian members of parliament) who are being treated like shit and isolated from the world think about it.. i hate to see people die anywhere, whether in israel or lebanon, but the situation has gotten out of hand

All of these videos, anti war blogs, and every thing else all say the same thing at the end - Oppose the war! Do your part to make it right! Act now! - But my question is.. HOW? How in the heck do you act on a government who obviously DOES NOT listen to the people by which make it up? Who do you tell your message to? Who is going to listen? When is the time for the US - the AMERICAN PEOPLE - to stand up and revolt against the LIES the Bush administration and everyone else has fed us? What can we do to change the fate our our country, this nation, and for that matter - this world? What can we do to overthrow the government and gain control of what seems to be slipping quickly away? Our freedom of choice, our freedom of speech, our FREEDOM - period? Someone please answer me... You keep telling us to take action, but WHAT action is that? WHAT CAN I DO LOUDLY?